{"id":264822,"date":"2026-02-03T02:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264822\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:51:13","slug":"softbank-fanuc-turn-to-partners-as-robotics-and-ai-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264822\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank, Fanuc turn to partners as robotics and AI merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260202N fanuc booth at robot expo\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japan&#8217;s largest supplier of industrial robots, Fanuc, hosts a booth at an expo in December.\u00a0(Photo by Hiromi Sato)<\/p>\n<p>YUSUKE YAGI and EISAKU NITTA<\/p>\n<p>February 3, 2026 06:50 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; As the rise of artificial intelligence reshapes the robotics industry, Japanese companies are trying to catch up on\u00a0&#8220;physical AI&#8221; robots by acquiring partners or offering open source software.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s largest supplier of industrial robots, Fanuc, hosts a booth at an expo in December.\u00a0(Photo by Hiromi Sato)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,151216,114714,111,139,69,143,13810,13867,145,664],"class_list":{"0":"post-264822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-fanuc","12":"tag-merge","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-partners","17":"tag-robotics","18":"tag-softbank","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-turn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}